Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-12-22
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. H. NJ. TRACY CUTLER viii spen
the winter ut Ocean Spray, Miss.
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER has TO
many years edited department in tn
Domestic Monthly.
Mrs. MAY S. KNAGGs conducts dc
partment for women in the Bay Cit
(Mich.) Tribune.
LADY BRAssEY was writing anothe
book of travels ut the time of he
death. 1t was only half finished. ant
will probably never be published.
Miss YOUMANs. who was for many
years the assistant and companion in
studies of her brother. the late Prof.
Edward L. YOumans. has succeeded to
the editorship Of the Popular Science
Monthly.
The PRINCESS OLYMPIA BARIATINsKl
is trusted political agent of the Gar.
She is now in Berlin ON a confidential
mission to Emperor William. The
Gar evidently believes that woman
can keep secret.
Mrs. REBEcCA MOORE, the valued
English correspondent of the WoMAN's
JOURNAL, was the guest of the N. E.
Won" Club at its opening recep.
| ton last Monday. She will spend the
winter in America.
Miss IDA L. GRIFFIN. of Syracuse.
n. Y, Democratic candidate for School
Commissioner in the Third district OF
OswegO County. was elected by nearly
four hundred majority. running six
hundred ahead of her ticket.
Mrs. E G. CAswELL says: Rob
the working-man of his franchise. and
his wages will depreciate one-half He
knows the ballot is the lever that
moves tie world, and accordingly he
holds sacred his political rights. The
toiling American woman also knows
the value of the elective franchise, and
she. too. wants it in her hand.
CHRISTIE BELL" says, in Il letter to
the Romans Journal, that the fatigue
and injury to health suffered by wom-
ell who have to run sewiDg-machine
continually. can he prevented by wear
ing Turkish trousers while at work. in
stead of the ordinary dress-skjrt- She
has tried it, and is satisfied of the fact
by repeated experiments
Mrs. HELEN CAMPBELL. the author
of prisoners of Poverty" is in Lon.
don investigating the condition Of tie
London working-women, and is to fur
nish series Of articles for one of the
London dailies similar to those pub
lished last winter by the New York
Tribune. She will also courthouse
some articles for Demorcsfs Mosthl,
Magazine.
Rosa BONHEUE, the celebrated artist,
once had u ''philopena" with a Russian
prince, and the prince lost. He asked
what he should give her rs his forfeit.
She answered. jokingly: ''Oh. any
pretty little animal that can use for a
model" Several months after, when
she had almost forgotten the affair. she
received her philopena present-three
magnificent white bears.
MADELEINE GAINIER, . niece of
Joaquin Miller, is clerk in the pos tai
department She lives entirely alone
in the log-cabin erected by Miller on
Meridian Hill. just outside of WASH
ingtOn. She seems to have no fear of
danger in her out-of-the way retreat.
and attributes her lack of nervousness
to clear conscience and the posses
sion of trusty revolver. She is
crack shot ut this weapon, and devOtes
some OF her spare moments every day
to pistol practice. She is artistic in
her tastes. and her sketches are ex-
tremely clever. At her department
desk she is retiring, Industrious and
able.
Miss CLARA S. POTTER, Bishop Potter's
daughter, is showing unusual exec
utive ability as president of the Girls
Endeavor Club. one OF Miss Grace
Dodge's thirteen clubs for the working
girls of New York. The club occupies
stately old-fashioned house in a quar-
ter once fashionable. but now decayed.
1t includes clearinghouse. classes
in dress-making. cookery and elocu-
ton. and evening entertainments in
which the working girls themselves are
the chief performers I'VE girls like
it great deal BETTER" said one of
them. ''when we do things ourselves.
There's more interest about it than
when outsiders entertain us" Human
nature is much the same in rich girls
or poor ones
A PLEASANT incident of the meeting
OF the American Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation held recently in Philadelphia
was the presentation to the audience
OF Mrs. E. r Hunter, of Wichita,
Kan. as a real voter who could never
BE- mistaken anywhere for any but .
modest and good woman. When the
applause subsidized. Mrs. Hunter said
that in Wichita there were four candi-
dates for mayor. Two of them were
unknown to the women. who were told
on inquiry that they were .-some Of
the boys" But the Wichita women
wa ted men and not boys for mayor.
When these rnEo-u c~rIsI><o. f>,,ud